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TRUNK. No. 296,976. Patented Apr. 15, 1884.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 296,976, dated April 15, 1884.

Application filed January 11, 1884. (x6 mcdel.)

To a, w/wm it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. LARGE, of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Trunks, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to improvements in trunks, and it consists, principally, of the direct pivoting of the tray to the lid and conmeeting it pivotally to the body, and of subsidiary parts, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l is a broken end elevation of my new and improved trunk as it appears when closed; and Fig. 2 is a similar View, showing the trunk as it appears when the'lid is open.

A represents the body ofthe trunk, and B the lid, hinged to the body A by the hinges a a, in the ordinary manner. 0 is the tray. To the ends of this are secured, by thebolts b b, the plates D D, which thus become part of the tray, and these plates are pivoted at their rear ends to the ends of the lid B by the bolts 0 c. E E are link-plates pivoted to the plates D D by the bolts 61 d, and to the ends of the body A of the trunk, upon the inside, by the boltse e. The plates D being made fast to the tray 0 and pivotedto the lid B, the opening of the lid will carry the pivots c c from the position shown in Fig. l upward and backward to the position shown in Fig. 2. This will lift the tray 0 and draw the outer ends of the link-plates E E to the vertical position, as

shown in Fig. 2, which will cause the tray 0 to be lifted bodily out of the trunk A and supported in level position.

To prevent the lid B from being turned backward too far in opening it, I provide the ends of the trunk A, a little above and in rear of the pivots e c, with the stop-pins f f, against which the upper or rear edges of the plates E E strike, as will be understood from Fig. 2. In closing the lid B, the tray C and upper ends of the plates E E will be carried forward and downward and closed into the body of the trunk to the position shown in Fig. 1.

Having thus fully described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters plates being pivoted to the body and tray of 60 the trunk, substantially as and for the purposes described.

VILLIAM J. LARGE. Witnesses: H. A. Wnsr, G. SEDGWIOK. 

